December 22, 2015
Mohenjo
Breaking News
amazon, business, Business News, Elon Musk, Falcon 9, Hotels, human-rights, medicine, mental-health, research, Science, Science News, Space Travel, SpaceX, Spacex Landing, technology, Technology News, travel, vacation
FROM
Click link below picture
.
SpaceX made history Monday night when it successfully launched a Falcon 9 rocket into orbit, deployed 11 satellites, and then brought the 15-story booster back to Earth for a soft, vertical landing just six miles from where it took off at Cape Canaveral, Florida.
It marks the first time billionaire Elon Musk’s Space Exploration Technologies Corp., or SpaceX, has attempted to land a rocket on land and the first ever successful attempt to recover a rocket from an orbital flight, NBC News reports.
As the rocket came to rest on its landing pad, a SpaceX webcast commentator confirmed, “The Falcon has landed,” drawing an eruption of applause from those gathered at the based private space flight company’s headquarters in Hawthorne, California.
.
Image: Breaking News and Opinion on The Huffington Post
.
.
Click link below for story, video, gif, social media and slideshow:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/spacex-history-rockets-reused_5678aefee4b014efe0d69a72
.
__________________________________________
October 7, 2014
Mohenjo
Technical
$6.8 billion, amazon, American spacecraft, Apollo-style spaceships, astronauts from the U.S., back to the future, Boeing, business, Business News, designed by Boeing and SpaceX, Hotels, human-rights, International Space Station, Kennedy Space Center, medicine, mental-health, NASA, NASA Administrator Charles Bolden, NASA is going back to the future, research, Russians, Science, Science News, space shuttle fleet, space taxis, SpaceX, technology, Technology News, travel, vacation
Click link below picture
.
NASA is going back to the future with $6.8 billion in backing for Apollo-style spaceships designed by Boeing and SpaceX. Both companies have been given the go-ahead to build, test and fly their gumdrop-shaped “space taxis,” with the aim of transporting astronauts to and from the International Space Station starting in 2017.
“Today, we’re one giant leap closer to launching our astronauts from the U.S. on American spacecraft,” NASA Administrator Charles Bolden said Tuesday from Kennedy Space Center in Florida.
Since the retirement of the space shuttle fleet in 2011, NASA has had to rely on the Russians for rides to the station, at a cost topping $70 million per seat. Tuesday’s award is the latest phase in a years-long commercial effort aimed at fixing that situation — an effort that already has cost NASA $1 billion.
.
.
.
Click link below for article and videos:
.
__________________________________________
